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Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : being an account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the west through Bihe, Ganguella, ... to the mouth of the Zambesi on the east coast / by James Johnston, M. D. With fifty-one full-page photogravure illustrations from photographs by the author and map indicating route traversed

Author:
Johnston, James M. D., of Brown's Town, Jamaica  Search this
Physical description:
1 p. l., 5-353 p. : front. (port.), plates ; 25 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1893
[1893]
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT731 .J72X
DT731.J72X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_42248

To the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi / by Eduard Mohr ; [translated by N. D'Anvers]

Author:
Mohr, Eduard 1828-1876  Search this
Subject:
Mohr, Eduard 1828-1876  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 462 p., [17] leaves of plates (1 fold.) : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Date:
1973
1876
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT756.M69 1973X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_423329

Au coeur de l'Afrique du Sud

Type:
Articles
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1993
1994
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
TT500 .V716X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_495820

Robert and Elizabeth Webb photographs of world travels

Creator:
Webb, Robert Watkins, 1906-1998  Search this
Names:
Webb, Elizabeth N. (possible photographer)  Search this
Extent:
53 Slides (53 black and white copy slides)
20 Color slides (circa)
1,500 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (some in photo albums))
1,000 Items (circa 1000 copy color prints (made from slides))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Slides
Color slides
Prints
Photographs
Place:
India -- description and travel
Japan -- Description and Travel
Singapore -- Description and Travel
Serbia -- description and travel
Scotland -- description and travel
Russia -- Description and Travel
Sri Lanka -- Description and Travel
Spain -- description and travel
South Africa -- Description and Travel
Chile -- description and travel
Somalia -- description and travel
Palestine -- description and travel
Peru -- Description and Travel
Nepal -- Description and Travel
Norway -- description and travel
Egypt -- description and travel
Portugal -- description and travel
Romania -- description and travel
Philippines -- Description and Travel
Poland -- description and travel
Kenya -- Description and Travel
Israel -- Description and Travel
China -- Description and Travel
Morocco -- description and travel
Mozambique -- description and travel
Mexico -- description and travel
Montenegro -- description and travel
Croatia -- description and travel
Denmark -- description and travel
Czech Republic -- Description and Travel
Burma -- Description and Travel
Bulgaria -- description and travel
Canada -- Description and Travel
Austria -- description and travel
Brazil -- Description and Travel
Borneo -- description and travel
England -- description and travel
France -- description and travel
Ecuador -- Description and Travel
Holland -- Description and Travel
Guatemala -- Description and Travel
Greece -- description and travel
Germany -- description and travel
Ireland -- description and travel
Iran -- Description and Travel
Italy -- description and travel
Hungary -- description and travel
United States -- description and travel
Thailand -- description and travel
Taiwan -- description and travel
Switzerland -- description and travel
Yugoslavia -- description and travel
Yucatan -- Description and Travel
Date:
1938-1996
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs made by Robert and Elizabeth Webb in numerous locations across the world, including Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Borneo, Singapore, Thailand, Burma, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, and Russia); the Balkans (Czech Republic, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Poland); Europe (Spain, England, France, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and Portugal); the Middle East (Egypt, Iran, Israel, and Palestine); Africa (Kenya, Morocco, Somalia, Mozambique, and South Africa); South America (Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Yucatan, and Guatemala); and North America (Canada, Florida, Washington state, Alaska, Hawaii, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah). The photographs largely document architecture and art, including historical sites, though there are additional images of parades, transportation, cities, villages, markets, waterways, and people.

Commercial slides in the collection are by Swiss-Foto, E. Djupdraet, Herz-Color-Dias, Hong Kong Color Slide Service, SK Slide Co., Lehnert & Landrock, Douglas Whiteside, Vacation Films, Arctic Circle Enterprise, HI-FI Color Slides, Pana-Vue Slides, CP Inc., Jordan's Colour Lab, Hawaii Chrome, Syon House, John Decopoulos, La Goelette, and Zerkowitz. Notes by Robert Webb and original photograph albums are also available with the collection.
Biographical/Historical note:
Robert Watkins Webb (1906-1998) graduated from Southern Methodist University and received his medical degree from Tulane University in 1933. Before starting his psychiatry practice in Dallas, Webb traveled around the world, returning on the SS Normandie to New York (1938). An amateur photographer, Webb documented this and subsequent foreign trips, later submitting some of his photographs to the Dallas Museum of Art. He served four years in the Army during World War II,stationed primarily in Port Moresby, New Guinea. He later became chief psychiatrist of the Veterans Administration clinic in Washington, DC, from 1946-1950. In 1952, he married Elizabeth Nutting, a psychiatric social worker, while cruising the Mediterranean.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 98-9
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University holds Robert W. Webb photographs.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Topic:
Architecture  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 98-9, Robert and Elizabeth Webb photographs of world travels, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.98-9
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw390e016f0-2c0a-4dc4-b550-ead7b8fa26a1
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-98-9

Umbala : the adventures of a Negro sea-captain in Africa and on the Seven Seas in his attempts to found an Ethiopian Empire. An autobiographical narrative / by Captain Harry Dean; written with the assistance of Sterling North

Author:
Dean, Harry 1864-1935  Search this
North, Sterling 1906-1974  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Subject:
Dean, Harry 1864-1935  Search this
Physical description:
255 p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1929
Topic:
African American ship captains  Search this
Tramp shipping--History  Search this
Ship captains  Search this
Voyages and travels  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
E185.97.D32 A3 1929
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_790195

An expedition of discovery into the interior of Africa : through the hitherto undescribed countries of the Great Namaquas, Boschmans, and Hill Damaras / performed under the auspices of Her Majesty's government, and the Royal geographical society ; and conducted by Sir James Edward Alexander

Author:
Alexander, James Edward Sir 1803-1885  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. , [5] leaves of plates : fronts., ill., map (fold) ; 20 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Namibia
South Africa
Date:
1838
Topic:
Scientific expeditions  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT1532 .A74 1838
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_767644

Camden Town of Cape Town / words, Shaun Lane ; photographs, Jurie Senekal

Author:
Lane, Shaun  Search this
Senekal, Jurie  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
South Africa
Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa)
Observatory (Cape Town, South Africa)
Date:
2004
Topic:
Neighborhoods  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
AP9 .C374
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_775832

With Rhodes in Mashonaland / by D.C. de Waal ; translated from the original Dutch by Jan H. Hofmeyr de Waal

Author:
Waal, D. C. de (David Christiaan) 1845-1909  Search this
De Waal, J. H. H (Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr) 1871-1937  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Subject:
Rhodes, Cecil 1853-1902  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 351 p. : 2 port. (incl. front.) ; 19 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Mashonaland Central Province (Zimbabwe)
South Africa
Date:
1896
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT3020.M37 W33 1896
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_777528

The cruise of H.M.S. Galatea : captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., in 1867-1868 / by John Milner and Oswald W. Brierly

Author:
Milner, John  Search this
Brierly, Oswald W  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Compton, M. DSI  Search this
Subject:
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alfred Duke of 1844-1900  Search this
Galatea (Frigate)  Search this
Physical description:
vii, 487 p., [18] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (some col.), port., map ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Australia
South Africa
Date:
1869
19th century
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
G478 .M55 1869
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_783077

Notes of travel in South Africa / by Charles John Andersson ; edited by L. Lloyd

Title:
Andersson's works
Author:
Andersson, Charles John 1827-1867  Search this
Lloyd, L (Llewelyn) 1792?-1876  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Sharland, H. H. DSI  Search this
Munger Africana Library DSI  Search this
North Devon Athenæum DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 338 p. : port. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1875
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT1732 .A66 1875
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_783958

African nature notes and reminiscences / by Frederick Courteney Selous ; with a "Foreword" by President Roosevelt and illustrations by E. Caldwell

Author:
Selous, Frederick Courteney 1851-1917  Search this
Caldwell, E (Edmund G.)  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xxx, 356 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1908
Topic:
Hunting  Search this
Animal behavior  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_784946

Travels in the interior of southern Africa / by William J. Burchell ; with an entirely new map, and numerous engravings

Title:
Travels in southern Africa DSI
Author:
Burchell, William J. (William John) 1781-1863  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Subject:
Burchell, William John 1782?-1863 Travel  Search this
Physical description:
2 v., [21] leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill. (acquatints, wood engravings), map ; 28 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
Africa
South Africa
Africa, Southern
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Date:
1822
1824
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT756 .B94X 1822
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_784021

On the birds of Zululand : founded on the collections made by Messrs. R.B. & J.D.S. Woodward / by R. Bowdler Sharpe ; with a narrative of their travels by R.B. & J.D.S. Woodward

Author:
Sharpe, Richard Bowdler 1847-1909  Search this
Woodward, R. B  Search this
Woodward, J. D. S  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Subject:
Woodward, R. B Travel  Search this
Woodward, J. D. S Travel  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. (24, 23 p., [1] leaf of plates) : 1 col. ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South Africa
Zululand
Zululand (South Africa)
Date:
1897
1897]
Topic:
Birds  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
QL692.S6 S43 1897
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_784943

Notes on South African hunting : and notes on a ride to Victoria Falls of the Zambezi / by Alfred J. Bethell

Title:
South African hunting
Author:
Bethell, Alfred J  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Wilson, B. Malokele DSI  Search this
Bailey, R. A. DSI  Search this
Physical description:
94 p., [2] leaves of plates : map ; 19 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1887
Topic:
Hunting  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
SK251 .B48 1887
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_767664

A world in one province / by Christine Van Deemter ; photographs by Jan Grobler

Author:
Deemter, Christine van  Search this
Grobler, Jan  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Guidebooks
Place:
Limpopo (South Africa)
Date:
2005
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT1701 .S298
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_828324

Paysages, lions et beautés noires

Author:
Morton, H. V (Henry Vollam) 1892-1979  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1962
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
AP20 .R454
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_810505

On duty : a ride through hostile Africa / Parker Gillmore

Title:
Ride through hostile Africa
Author:
Gillmore, Parker  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 380 p. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1880
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT1732 .G56 1880
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_780417

In haunts of wild game : a hunter-naturalist's wanderings from Kahlamba to Libombo / by Frederick Vaughan Kirby ; with ... numerous illustrations by C. Whymper

Author:
Kirby, Frederick Vaughan  Search this
Whymper, Charles 1853-  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Devonia Lending Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 576 p., [17] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., port., map ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South Africa
Mozambique
Drakensberg Mountains
Date:
1896
Topic:
Hunting  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
SK251 .K57 1896
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_781401

Life in the wilderness, or, Wanderings in South Africa / by Henry H. Metheun

Title:
Life in the wilderness
Wanderings in South Africa
Methuen's Life in the wilderness DSI
Author:
Methuen, Henry Hoare  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Hoogstraal, Harry 1917-1986 DSI  Search this
Owen, John DSI  Search this
Society of Writers to H.M. Signet (Great Britain) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xii, [2], 318 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations (lithographs, wood engravings) ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South Africa
Date:
1846
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT1030 .M48 1846
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_782568

Adventures beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman / by Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch)

Author:
Maturin, Edith Cecil  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Testi, Ernest E. DSI  Search this
Physical description:
vii, 391 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Transvaal (South Africa)
Africa, Central
Zambia
Date:
1913
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT2309 .M38 1913
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_782637

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